chapter one“Will It Come Out?”
Introduction
During a portion of a fourteen years experience as an amateur photographer, I always supposed that a good judgment, combined with experience (the latter implying the generous use of time and plates), would eventually enable me to obtain a good negative every time I exposed a plate. … That was my greatest mistake.
… From “My Greatest Mistake”
—by William BullockBulb and Button Magazine, September 1900
Before the vast popularity of digital photography, the loneliest people in the world were probably photographers in darkrooms waiting to see if their negatives turned out the way they had hoped. This is true for photographers still working with film, and an equivalent problem exists when digital ...
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